Solaris Studio Installer

The new and changed features in the Installer include:

• The list of components you can choose to install has changed. The selectable components now are:

  • Compiler support files (required by the C and C++ compilers)

  • C and C++ compilers

  • Fortran compiler

  • dbx debugger

  • dbxtool

  • dmake

  • DLight observability tool (Solaris platforms only)

  • IDE

  • Performance and Thread Analysis tools (Solaris platforms only)

  • Performance Library (Solaris platforms only)

  • ScaLAPACK (Solaris platforms only)

• You can now install only the runtime libraries by starting either the GUI installer or the non-GUI installer with the –libraries-only option. This option installs the C++ libraries, the Fortran 90 libraries, the math libraries (Solaris platforms only).

• If you are installing on a system with zones, you can now specify installation in the current zone only using a checkbox in the GUI installer, as well as from the command line when starting the non-GUI installer.

• Alternative root installation is now supported only in the non-GUI installer, and not in the GUI installer.

• The installers do not require you to accept a license.

• There is no longer a restriction on the zone in which you can run the installer if you have previous Sun Studio releases installed on the system.